I Can Contract Beauties-Chapter 142: Few Days

After he was done checking the logs, he also checked his Inner World and counted the number of Origin Energy drops floating above it.

As he did not dual-cultivate with Edith earlier, the number floating above did not increase but instead decreased because of his constant use of skills. It was only a minimal amount, though, so it did not affect him that much.

There were a lot of reasons why he did not dual-cultivate with her earlier. First, it was so that both of them could enjoy the intimacy between the two of them. Second, the Yin Energy and Yang energy were not unlimited and needed to replenish themselves. And last, if done repeatedly and irresponsibly, it would have a severe effect on the practitioners instead. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After morning came, Miguel immediately proceeded to the library and began his reading session. Edith accompanied him while Vena remained outside so as not to disturb them.

Days passed in the blink of an eye, and unknowingly, it has already been a week since they arrived in Red Cliff City.

Inside the library, Miguel put down the last book as he closed his eyes to relish in the feeling of being able to read an entire library full of books without fail.

Due to his insane reading and comprehension speed, it did not take long for him to finish all the books inside the library. Most of them did not give much information to him, though, but he still enjoyed reading them to the last page.

Miguel opened his eyes and turned to pat Edith and Aaliyah’s heads at the same time.

Both of them looked bored to the point that Edith was sleeping on the table while Aaliyah kept on twirling her hair as she looked at Miguel deeply.

"I’m done in here," he said, attracting the attention of the two women by his side.

"There’s truly no trace of me, right?" Aaliyah suddenly asked.

Ever since they slept together, Aaliyah has grown even closer and more comfortable with Miguel and Edith. She had started to open up about her past slightly as well, no longer as guarded as before.

She also confirmed that the Red Family from now on was also the same Red Clan that she was in before her death.

According to her, the Red Clan was one of the major and main clans of the empire during her time. They were a pretty powerful Grimoire Summoner Clan, and the ruler of the empire relied on them the most to fight off the invading empires from all directions, earning them the nickname of the empire’s unstoppable bow.

Three days ago, she requested to come out of the library as she wanted to check the records of her past as well as the Red Clan’s real situation at this moment.

Unfortunately, she did not find anything and ended up just telling Miguel to tell her if any information about her or the Red Clan was mentioned.

Miguel nodded his head and said, "Yes. Your assumption of the traitor erasing all traces might be true."

Not only her, but even the entire Red Clan’s history was wiped clean. At least none of them were mentioned in the hundreds of books that Miguel read in this library. Miguel even found some information regarding the other main clans of the Meven Empire, so it was baffling that there was no mention of the Red Clan at all.

Aaliyah guessed that it might have been erased by the entity that she was facing back then.

According to her, that entity has miraculous powers.

She said that the enemy could cloud the minds of her people and were able to control them to fight against themselves. She actually had not met the enemy this entire time, and she had been dancing on her enemy’s palm until her death.

When she found out that the internal conspiracy was only a ploy by the enemy behind the scenes, it was already too late.

Hearing the description allowed Miguel to confirm that the enemy that Aaliyah had faced before was the same enemy that they were facing now.

When Miguel shared it with her, Aaliyah was especially furious.

Was it not enough to ruin her family back then?

Only when Miguel comforted her did she calm her emotions down.

She also warned Miguel not to get careless.

According to Aaliyah, she had already surpassed the Grandmaster Summoner Rank back then, while her main Innate Beast had already surpassed the Diamond Grade—the grade after Gold Grade—back then.

She was obviously very strong and stood at the peak of power in this entire region back then, but she still ended up playing on her enemies palms.

From that alone, one could already tell how terrifying this enemy of hers was, so she reminded Miguel repeatedly not to be careless like her.

Miguel took note of her reminders and did not take this case too lightly as well.

During these past few days, he also noticed a lot of guards eyeing his movements. He reckoned that they were hidden chess pieces of the enemy and did not alert them.

After laying low for a while, the enemy must have already confirmed that Erika and the others did not suspect a single thing other than the bandits due to her excessive inquiry about the bandits information during these past few days.

The lack of movement from ’Journey’ must have also solidified their guesses; hence, just yesterday, Miguel finally felt that there was no longer anyone monitoring him from the dark.

Their plan was a success. It was now time to go to the Red Family’s main branch in Blazing City.

Aaliyah returned to the grimoire as Miguel and Edith went out of the library.

He looked at Vena and told her to call Erika and Gasper to his room.

The two of them worked hard these past few days. Inquiring about the bandits hideouts and connections in Red Cliff City.

With the help of Alderic, they managed to uproot twenty hidden members of the bandit group.

Gasper even publicly announced that he would hunt the bandits down, even if they went to the end of the world.

His bold claim attracted many people, as some of them praised him for his actions. Bandits were the scourge of society, so all the people supported his claims.

Inside his room, Erika and Gasper stood in front of Miguel and Edith.

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